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author | Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> | 2001-07-19 00:49:57 +0000 |
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committer | Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> | 2001-07-19 00:49:57 +0000 |
commit | 5dc571b4956d97fc5600e26702390ef42c55f58a (patch) | |
tree | 410ebcaf417ae644c3798505fbd3aae18d3a6e3b /m4/missing.m4 | |
parent | 3c5abbd0037c99983c20287f6faf4fe90ff28cd7 (diff) | |
download | automake-5dc571b4956d97fc5600e26702390ef42c55f58a.tar.gz |
2001-07-18 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
* m4/missing.m4: Reword comment.
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/m4/missing.m4 b/m4/missing.m4 index 9fd278145..a8dab4646 100644 --- a/m4/missing.m4 +++ b/m4/missing.m4 @@ -52,17 +52,17 @@ fi # For projects using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([foo]), Autoconf sets # $ac_aux_dir to ${srcdir}/foo. In other projects, it is set to `.'. -# Of course, Automake must honor this variable whenever it call a tool -# from the auxiliary directory. The problem is that $srcdir (hence -# $ac_aux_dir) can be either an absolute path or a path relative to -# $top_srcdir or absolute, this depends on how configure is run. This -# is pretty anoying since it makes $ac_aux_dir quite unusable in -# subdirectories: on the top source directory, any form will work -# fine, but in subdirectories relative pat needs to be adapted. -# - calling $top_srcidr/$ac_aux_dir/missing would success if $srcdir is -# relative, but fail if $srcdir is absolute -# - conversly, calling $ax_aux_dir/missing would fail if $srcdir is -# absolute, and success on relative paths. +# Of course, Automake must honor this variable whenever it calls a tool +# from the auxiliary directory. The problem is that $srcdir (and therefore +# $ac_aux_dir as well) can be either an absolute path or a path relative to +# $top_srcdir, depending on how configure is run. This is pretty annoying, +# since it makes $ac_aux_dir quite unusable in subdirectories: in the top +# source directory, any form will work fine, but in subdirectories a relative +# path needs to be adjusted first. +# - calling $top_srcdir/$ac_aux_dir/missing would succeed if $ac_aux_dir was +# relative, but fail if it was absolute. +# - conversly, calling $ac_aux_dir/missing would fail if $ac_aux_dir was +# relative, and succeed on absolute paths. # # Consequently, we define and use $am_aux_dir, the "always absolute" # version of $ac_aux_dir. |